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blotto adjective very drunk; in a drunken stupor UK, 1917 Possibly from the absorbent quality of blotting paper, or from a conventional mid-C19 usage of “blotted” as “blurred”.- “You can sit up and drink with me until I go blotto,” I said. — Chester Himes, If He Hollers Let Him Go, p. 95, 1945
- One blotto bird in a narrow night club foyer, yelling for his coat and insisting he never got a check, can hold up 300. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, New York Confidential, p. 221, 1948
- “The pleasure of being blotto and not knowing for a little while what a mess everything is.” — John Conway, Love in Suburbia, p. 56, 1960
- One of the men [...] fell forward, suddenly, head first on to the muddy pavement. He was quite blotto. The bottle he was holding fell without breaking and rolled down the alley. — Geoffrey Fletcher, Down Among the Meths Men, p. 24, 1966
- And the Barfers got blotto and fell in love with everything about these movie guys[.] — Joseph Wambaugh, Lines and Shadows, p. 336, 1984
- [H]is M.O. for the evening, I soon began to disern, was to get Donleavy so totally blotto that he could have his way with him, in terms of contracts[.] — Terry Southern, Now Dig This, p. 174, 1991
- The elevator’s broke so Frog sends me up alone, he ain’t gonna jog up six stories, he’s blotto anyhow. — Richard Price, Clockers, p. 102, 1992
- What the bloody hell could be happening in your bloody mind to find it necessary to get blotto before noon? — Odie Hawkins, Amazing Grace, p. 17, 1993
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